The answer i'd go with is: "<span>Then the blue foxes and the yellow flongboos pattered pitty-pat, pitty-pat, each with feet and toenails, ears and hair, everything except tails, patter scritch scratch over the stone floor out into the train shed."</span>
The central theme of the poem is the upbringing of a child. While it is important for parents to teach their children what is right and wrong and instil good manners in them, they also need to be sensitive towards the wishes of the child.
